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the 17 year old completed his 5 months journey and bulgaria with his proud family there to welcome him by the fed broke to get his well records on his flight, including one set by his own sister. i wonder if she'll be happy about that. up next hour, documentary homeless in istanbul, looks at the 10000 people living on the streets of turkey's big city. i've been for solon, thanks for your company. i'll leave you in the hands of bank gulf. you'll have your used next out, a bite. with any copays in germany to learn german pollution pinnacle. why not learn with him
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online on your mobile and free chef t w's e learning course. eco's vague ah ah nice on the streets. over the past years, the number of unhealthy people in turkey has risen sharply in a stumble, volunteers the fighting to provide at least the bare minimum spanish. the 1st, if i don't do it, he, well, i used to live on the streets, you know about that for 5 and the government. that what the government didn't mean me laughs in turkey and housed people can expect little help from the states. often volunteers of their last hope in with her food. some of them are doing good for
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others, is very important to me, a router. but even if it's just handing out flu, islam teaches us to treat people with kind bass and charity. i got it the most good at on cognition. ah, ah, this old postal track has become wistful, fuzzy, carmen's mo bile kitchen. the 31 year old is a devout muslim and associates just specialized in poverty and homelessness. ah, but it must. endlessness not only means not having a roof of your head window, it's an entirely different way of life. it's accompanied by social, marginalization and loneliness. you can't simply talk to other people about your problem so, so it's supposed to tribute that long ago really live. she says that going to
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settle the food is donated 7 days a week, must have her picks it up from a canteen and assemble. he never knows what will be on the menu that day. his father founded the organization some 10 years ago. it's called ashanna, which is turkish for soup kitchen. to day, only the found, his son is on the road. he's running late, the traffic in is stumble, has held him up, knowing that so many people are waiting for him, makes him nervous. good are low mother probably gets gums once i arrived later than usual. an unhealthy gentleman approached me and told me that the food we brought was the only meal he cat. each day. he asked us to never be late again. we are, may, you ought to at least warn him if we were there we should have it ready?
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shook him up with jim. as rachel says, return the food is distributed in the inner courtyard of a mask in the fighting district across the street. nice. the city hall, which is just as uninvolved as the state itself. as mister for pulls up, there seems to be trouble. once again, as so often lately, turkish and house to people and migrant on house, people have got into an argument or show almost a good thing. you're here, you should see those 2 over there that only does it from that and tell me, i'm not supposed to give them any food, although they need to go to the very back of the line that they've been arguing for over half an hour to week is what i'm like though it's just too many from. busy can you deal with them yourself? so what do you want me to do? i love it. we wanna glue
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some 200 people. wait here every evening. more and more refugees are among them. in turkey, sentiments towards migrants have increasingly solid, as many believes they are being favored over the local population. there will but mystify doesn't care who comes here for why i was a. could i please have your noodles? sure, no problem and palmer from your home or through the controller, you might sorry. it's not arranged nicely, but the food is very tasty. thank you. i must have her tells us that poverty is one of the largest drivers of homelessness. here, drugs and alcohol unless of a problem than in western europe. today, honda has come to help he's been living on the streets for years. and his
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volunteered here for quite some time. this shall say done to help out because i too am affected by homelessness. and i want to do something good for the community. hopefully. busy it keeps me busy and i hope it will help me find my way by surrounding me with good people and teach me to learn from my mistakes. so all of you will look up the full result. all of them looks good with honda has made plenty of mistakes to none from as he'll tell us later for to day he and mister for a finishing up. it's time to move on to the next district where more a waiting for a warm meal. you know, go with it. ah,
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a stumble. the city that straddles 2 continents, tourists appreciate its beauty and liveliness. but in the past years, poverty has been on the rise, exacerbated by economic crises, and a growing number of migrants around 18000000 people live here. and there are no, when near enough jobs to go around, it's a slippery slope from unemployment to homelessness. and here on the bus for us, it's easy to lose one's footing. and the government refuses to accept responsibility. i sure experienced this 1st hand raised in berlin. she was a young woman when she came to turkey, where her husband forced her into prostitution. she made it house, but she had to sleep on the streets.
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in the district of bay alou, she now runs a little cafe and housed people can get a free meal. here i shall see. this is her life's work. almost every one here knows ayesha whether from her time's in need or now as a helper, there impressed. come on. just one more picture. the shops closed today, don't go back then. nobody was that to help her. she still dealing with the wounds that inflicted damage that plan. i couldn't find any food issue. there was nobody i could talk to and i had to hide the fact that i didn't have a home to be open with you. i have to do things like where the same underwear for 38 days in a row fellow to day she's meeting shuler, a volunteer at the cafe. the to a going to buy groceries for the week. that heading towards the market in the
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district of tyler bussey. it's as simple part of town with mostly low income households. i should come here to shop because the price is lower than at the supermarket. oh hi. how are you today? can i please have 5, your faster i really wanna push on. usa usa is a sin flat bread. that's the foundation of many turkish dishes. but today's price is takeisha back on phone call. one at the beginning of the corona virus pandemic was one kilogram with 5 pieces of red cost, $8.00 laira. now 5 piece is cost $15.00, lera. that's quite the market as a player in the past, mom, this price is in turkey, have shot up. meanwhile, the turkish lira has become weaker and weaker in these circumstances,
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many haven't been able to afford food and rent. i don't want to that, you know, it reminds i sure of the time she spent on the streets, she would often go to market and gather leftovers from the ground. will search garbage cans for whatever was still edible. my bill, her 2 by make the i 8 old bread, thrown away at burger king or mcdonalds were left next to the ashburn at the hospital to service. and yeah, that's what i survived on. it said for about 4 and a half months, almost finished the leftovers that you didn't want that you thought didn't taste good. that's what i age. his lift up the service because the fact that prices have nearly doubled in such a short time, even here at this market is becoming a bigger and bigger problem for ayesha and her team at the cafe. ah janice food zone zone,
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the prices keep going off. this bit we get by thanks to donations home phone number, people help us as best they can look at how long will they still be able to help with this, struggling to get by themselves with i sure has an important appointment coming up next week. she'll make a public appearance and tell her life story to attract new sponsors. she's going to need them in order to keep the cafe running. a stumble has the highest population of all turkish cities. nobody quite knows how many on housed people live here. some $10000.00 or estimated the government keeps no official census on the matter and is otherwise also remain to widely passive when it comes to helping those on the streets. every 3 months,
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those in need receive about $25.00 euros. that's just enough to buy one cup of tea . a day. temporary shelters are also provided. sometimes, mostly in large holes. we me town, sir again, whom we'd 1st met while he was working with mister ha. to beat the cold at night he often spends hours wandering through the eye. yup. so tom district, many islamic saints are buried here. living on the streets has brought him closer to islam. to little over here, the gravestones, i feel safe. and i can learn about the lives of these st. so then i will leverage all descriptions, tell me how they lived there years old witch trials. they had to overcome a lot of their health and losses all hands. they used to lead an entirely different
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life. he was the owner of a small textile business, but when his tax adviser cheated him out of a large sum of money, comes a shot at him and went to jail. to day he says he's a different person. in part, thanks, timothy differ is reasonable. i've watched him fight for people without making any distinctions that he said, well, that's when i told myself it was time for me to change. now i'm trying to find my place in society. give me global nature. they give me given his past, it's been hard for him to get back on his feet in turkey. he can't find a job and he can't find a home. for now, he sleeps in the courtyard of a small mask. the mom has permitted him to lie down here for a few hours each night. as long as he's gone before the 1st morning. prayers. every thing he owns is stowed in a bag toilet though it goes in was go slowly
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shaded. resumes ye commotion audiological to leave the toilet unlocked so i can use it. deletion 0, they get, they know i won't break anything to manage that. so all when i leave the morning, do so i take extra care to leave everything clean. and in good order. who's out of the michigan over i don't want the community filling hose to ponder, or also dreamless inferior is secondary of motion. him come to him. whereas the mask will remain empty until the early morning hums. i must brace himself for another cold night in its grounds. and yet he's grateful. it's still better than sleeping in the park. ah.
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mister fur is also worried about how harsh the winter is becoming. he and his father have rented storage space where they collect used clothes and blankets there sorely needed. in the past years, several on house people died of cold muster for new. some of them personally brucell about his blanket is the only thing stopping some people from freezing to death danielson, but often one blanket isn't enough to cheer at home. we also grab a 2nd blanket even when the heater is turned up. i was with daniel ramos to call you for that. you must murmur. in the coming days, he plans to distribute blankets to those on the streets. but today he has different plans in the cans in kind of a kia quarter. a number of refugee families are living precariously. most of our
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and other volunteers are bringing them some basic necessities to day. he's visiting a syrian family for muster, for has brought them coal for heating. the family is going to need it to get through the winter. they don't have a heater, just a small oven. hi, how are you? doing well and well thanks. what's your name is muhammad ahmed? my name's mister father with this family has been living in turkey for 5 years. the father is a french teacher, like many refugees here, he struggles to earn some money as a day laborer, but that isn't nearly enough to make ends meet. jeron, how high as the rent! maria jeter asked for how much money don't go ramble hostels, 900 lire duck was you in the apartment is very old and
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drafty askew. the windows aren't sealed properly, y'all. they are more joke joker. of course there are better apartments available so much good. i thought we could never afford them. oh, donna, will you only be one among thousands of similar cases? this family too has spent nights on the streets. you must have foresees this as proof that the govern mental age, even with the e u migrant fund, is nowhere near enough to the turkish population. refugees of the scapegoats to blame for hardships to the turkish government there, pawns in a political chess game. lou from the day with didn't get to them. we don't want to leave these people to the whims of states, and government is john mitchell. we're, we're here to help in that office, maybe 2 blankets and some encouragement cluster. i think this is a blessing for society and an opportunity of marianella demo bloom at reagan,
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cham solidarity as a blessing and opportunity. not only for others, but also for one's own personal growth. not many see things the way must have her does. ah ah, people often say is gone, bull is a city that never sleeps at night. some are busy at work, while others venture out to experience the night life. others still don't even know where they can sleep to nights. in turkey, it's the communities that are responsible for carrying for their homeless in istanbul, this job would fall to die. roll at u. z translated, it means the poor house. the organization was founded almost
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a 150 years ago during the ottoman empire. to day it runs several reception centers throughout his stumble, the cities, social democratic administration, does more for an housed people than past administrations have at least according to its head as they take the eye in, in, in the opposite children to social workers. keep telling us that turkish families look out for each other. let us talk yoked at us. what you see behind me are the results of broken homes and migration from anatolia in the search of a better life. related to civil, you'll be on call. good call. we spent 3 months and attend ideas at the show as
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a god called her. we became scared cloth. the children felt ill and they didn't have any warm clothes. people can only spend a maximum of 6 months in istanbul, city shelters. after that they have to leave regardless of whether they found work or not. many say they don't want to risk losing whatever space they found for themselves. so they prefer staying outside i sure is skeptical about public aid, even though it's improved, it's still not enough. that's why she founded her initiative in 2017. with the help of another organization. the concept is simple. during the day, it's a normal cafe. at night it becomes a center for an housed people. they currently serve about a $150.00 mails
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a day. as more and more keep coming i, she says she can tell more help is needed. vanished as if i don't do it. who will love? i used to not have a home either for fun. and the government register the government by law. what a joke that the turkish state doesn't recognize homelessness, not rosa, which i'm we used to go and visit those same governmental buildings to talk about homeless people. but we were told none were registered to your mother or marin earth. we supposed to register them us. so it's up to you. yes. to day a group of young students is helping out. they'd learned about the cafe through social media. i should story has made them think. oh edge roman again. most of us are struggling to get by to look than i mean,
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nobody has the time to take a look around. every one is so preoccupied with themselves that goes in love. society needs to learn that many people habit, far worse kindergarten, but hardly any one ever notices. due to corona virus restrictions on housed guests, the currently not allowed to eat indoors. instead, everything is packed up and handed out. i should takes great care to ensure the food is fresh, has plenty of veggies and is always a little spicy that helps against the cold. she says, i finished as i never serve anything that i wouldn't eat myself. it's always warm skin, a warm meal bombs, just like mom's cooking. dozens are already waiting outside the cafe. i sure and her team ask us to put our camera away. some he never told their families where they were going. they simply opted vanished
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in just 20 minutes. everyone has got a meal. for some, this is the only food they've had all day. meanwhile, the busy night life around them continues. unbolted people here have become accustomed to the sight of poverty. this indifference pains ayesha. she still feels that same stinging sensation of being invisible. her work at the cafe she tells us is also a way for her to process what she went through. i sure how do you feel after day like this or i feel good to le zabel. i feel very good as well. not slammed versus long. i know that 142 people got dinner tonight, but come home and now have a warm meal in their bellies. oh, loveseat. okay. in a few days, she'll be visiting
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a convention where she hopes to find more sponsors for her cafe yoko. you may go over. what gives her the strength and motivation to carry on. why has she dedicated her life to serving and housed people? the answer takes us far to the southeast of turkey, to the city of garcia and tech home to an estimated to 1000000. many move here from is stumble to escape poverty, few ever succeed. this is where i she has spent her short childhood before enduring the, unspeakable. when she was 9, her uncle raped her over the course of several months. it was the end of her childhood. she says, years later, she was forced into prostitution. when her husband sold her to a pimp, this was also where she lost her home. whenever she visit scuzzy and tip,
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she's haunted by her past the garment. you linelle k wouldn't even sell me, brett here. very difficult dish will because of your past? yes, because of my past, when i run their muscles cover of emotion with forgotten. whenever i she comes to gaussian tap, she picks up some things for her restaurant in his stumble. sorry, she's most interested in bringing regional spices back to the boss boris, him over. centered ships or what was the little of i'm for long. some of the shop owners still know what i used to do and what i do now. they are happy to see me, which ones are the sin of, but if i were to come here every day and buy groceries, they would cost sideways glances at me. they wouldn't accept me. as i said, we join. i shall on her way to shave camille, a district of gaussian tab. he
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a new building sprawl. crowding out much of what eustace dante, including an old brussel. it was one of 7 across turkey in which i sure was abused for years. i. she refuses to even set foot on the property. men should guess the male guests would come in through the entrance and gape at us as if we were in a new humble song. paul, we'd stand at the window like in the red light district in hamburg, and they'd stand at the window to yvonne album about the i'm fleming. we stood there like flamingoes of on one leg. i'm from 10 in the morning from for a law until 11 at night saying miss arsel. but once, once through a long escape was out of the question for ayesha and the other women trapped there . the pimps kept a close watch on them. forced prostitution is not rare in turkey,
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yob noodles, if they forced themselves upon us, was in whatever fantasy they had that they couldn't live out at home in their marriage pinnacles, they would enact with us if you add it up and it was clearly right, right. each client asked that came meant another rate. gus hud, money of and who protected us? the apples? nobody this is when i sure was born. her family doesn't live here anymore. and her relatives never forgave her for the past she endured. that's why i she doesn't want to see any of them and she certainly doesn't want to encounter a former client. is rise. israel myself, i don't know who bought my body. i don't know how many people i late with here
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with, i don't know. i was the barbara, let me go a little in spite of all her terrible memories, i should tries to visit garcia's tap at least twice a year. this is where her father's grave is. he's the only family member. she still respects he was also a member of the 1st generation of guest workers to emigrate to germany. it's been shut off my i'm proud of my father bonaire if he was still alive and could see the restaurant and everything i've achieved with my organization. and the last 4 or 5 years, he'd be so proud of me, brought it up from store as his art good when love and in case he's watching over me from above and expose. i bring him a little something each year he of us. what would you like to tell him which helped us? i made it shortly. shift. i managed to stay clean it up to tough. the sub lab. i
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didn't have to resort it had baggage, but to la and i was able to create works myself. mia, i dob, and enable others to find work through me about fin lesson. soon, i sure will attend to convention in a stumble, to attract more sponsors. ah, he stumbles district of ne shanisha. this is mother wealthy, come to live and shop. many tourists also find their way here, mostly from the emeralds. they're here to take advantage of the week turkish lira and make expensive purchases to keep such lucrative visitors coming. the city relies on gentrification. ah, edwin's government has toned an entire neighbourhood to make room for pompous
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buildings. if they don't want to end up on the streets. former residents are often left no other choice than to leave the city. as the cecilia just most of her has been observing this development very closely. now a family that he's known for years is worrying him. they are at risk of becoming homeless listener can so cantos through. so server here we can see a type of social justice that is typical for this city. there were 2 types supplies that couldn't be more different edition. if you look around, you can see that this family is destitute. they have no alternative to start to move. the mother is old and sick dresses. she's undergone the surgery several times
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with their medical with the sandra elkins over there. talk know, joshua this must have her take a look around. what's it like here? the woman doesn't want to be filmed. the refrigerator only has some leftovers in, etc. some bananas. does this to work so? sure. oh yes. it's a classic welfare case, but nobody other than mystify will help them. believe you some coal for heating? i was just thinking about you the other day for her. i thought you had forgotten me . i tried calling you well, but my phone is broken. what ever shall i do? mustafah williams. oh oh. oh oh.
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oh. after he visits the family must have a heads to the hush and pasha mosque in the district have cut a coin where food is prepared for the un housed, and those in need must have for picks up suit pierre almost every day. ingredients are donated by members of the congregation with us only will, a moment of our project actually started at least mosque will the rank of global i am a good. it means a lot to me. they prepare food here that has been donated from 7 in the week with miss allen. that's an attribute that many mosques have lost nowadays take, alter to put on the floor. they're actually supposed to be a focal point and support center for the neighboring community shadow. yes,
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i'm back. is it? how can the cook tells us that many mosques used to cook for the poor and on housed to day? it's more of an exception than the rule. many mosques even shut their doors after evening prayers. they've come to be more of a separating force than a uniting. one is looking with a list of what we want our community to be actively engaged in helping others. another will self. that's important to us. change the home if other people see how well this here is working, it might inspire them to follow our example. nicholson guffy, or john little from city must. if i was raised to religiously to this day, his faith plays a large role in his life. but he understands religion differently to most other believers. he's most concerned with the social aspect din article my list of these days. sadly, religion has become more of a routine or
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a theory than anything else. i mean, all that anybody knows that strictly following religious rules doesn't make you a good person. as i say, bureaus, annie, so me if you can pray as much as he wants out of it or god doesn't ask us to pray that much because it's more important regardless of which faith he follow with. yet mammals give it to me. others is that you keep your faith and responsibility in harmony, hopefully that we will then be the most likely the most lyric members of your oh, the time has finally come to day is i shes big appearance. she's trying to attract new sponsors at an is stumble, conference. many large brands, a representative. this is a rare chance i ship and she's come, well prepared. how do you feel? are you nervous to move all michelle? you've all, you know, not at all involved. i woke up at $5.00 if i'm used to it,
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i know what i want. i want people to acknowledge just busty local and i want them to see that if someone like me can make it up. that's why shouldn't others be able to as well, that i sure wish it's almost time a number of potential sponsors. a seated among the view is ayesha has 15 minutes to convince them i if we ask you for a narrow them, then you give it to us. but that won't philip benny's, is. what we people on the streets need our work? food and life. one narrow won't feed me a bottle of water costs 2. why do we only ever give away things that are old?
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and only ever after we bought a replacement. why don't we give to others with the same, right? i, fisher from them all. i, she does well. she delivers her speech convincingly and without sounding nervous. hello. a. she weaves in her own story for authenticity with now she and her team a waiting for a potential sponsor to approach them and tell them, well, then comes the good news. they've got one. a well known nutritionist has contacted a poultry deliver, and the company is willing to supplied the cafe for 2 years. i went to london, i keep asking myself how i could end up in
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a bordello and then on the streets. it was a terrible time. so like if i had met people like you back then, then we could have been doing good for 20 years instead of just for them. but we hopefully still have 20 more years ahead of us in the cinemas. i hope so. we shall embrace life in one another and i hope we both the long and healthy lives. i'm so glad. there are people like our sunday class the next day we catch up with i share it is stumbles famous tac seem square. she's off work today and about to make friends. as the metropolis bustles around her, she turns inward. despite having just landed a new sponsor, she's worried about the future. the rich keep getting richer while the poor are getting poorer. and the state does nothing but watch
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mom whole job. this people aren't born on the streets and they shouldn't die on the streets. to withhold one of these id cards should enjoy certain rights. but in turkey, the topic is absolutely taboo. came up. we don't want to see it on monday. we don't want to open up to it. why not? aren't we human to? and we just did it. i don't think so. ah, most of us organization is in the was could our district this evening on the asian side? as is always the case on days like these. the line is long homesafe here to helping out. he is not having a good day. like i sure he too is plagued by the thought that his life and the lives of other on house people like him,
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a stuck in an endless cycle on days like these, it feels like there's no escape, no matter how hard he tries. which result like unleash, available of i'll be honest with you for the lela my whole life. i haven't let myself be discouraged foreclosure. it's now i sleep on the streets. if i regret having served this country's military and even having paid them taxes, vertigo, their mother, you the money in wooster. first view, it's not just the responsibility of the state to address the needs of and housed people in turkey. any one can pitch in if only a little. sometimes it's enough to simply lend an ear younger as of how many of us actually know how our neighbor is doing. we don't care about other people's problems from an inductor. this hectic life from the loneliness of the large city, the more that at night when we go to sleep, we can feel that something is missing. it's a factor. we haven't done
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a good he validated in some ways, most of us work his quixotic. but without volunteers like him, the situation for many people on the streets in turkey would be far worse. we haven't seen hamza must have his helper for days. it's as if he's vanished. we set out to look for him. he said to have last been seen in ballot at the golden horn. it's a poor district that is popular with an housed people. sure enough, we find tanza here. ballot has commercial infrastructure for on house people, such as laundromats showers, internet cafes on 2nd hand stores. as
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ali pasha has almost anything, an unhappy man like hums, i could ask full lustily. ultima all the mirage on what it is. the laundry piled up here comes from practically all over the world. and it belongs to 4 or on housed people from pakistan or bangladesh. and of course, to locals of in the city of boston over here on house, people can have their laundry done and take a shower for just 15, leora, or about one year. in ela, salish pushes business is a social one that makes the lives of many people who are on house or in need easier . homes or has managed to find clothes in solid pushes,
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2nd hand store. you. she'll. but his trouble finding a home remains. alter your worn more foreigners. okay. pouring in that drives the prices up. root here for example, prices for a simple room. i've gone up from 20 to 80 lira, although i can't keep up with that really. i can't afford that strong. no search on that though or to the and i sure she keeps feeling drawn to the company of those who reluctantly cold, the streets and squares of his temple their home. she talks to them once to understand their worries and offer support wherever she can. she knows what it's like to not be able to grab a bite whenever hunger strikes the way she sees it. the economic crisis, along with the rising number of refugees,
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make it necessary for the state to do more to help those who have fallen by the wayside. but i sure and her team will keep up the fright. ah, to the point. strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives rushes 6 month war on ukraine is up ended the lives of people throughout the region, driving a wedge between neighbors,
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